Queen Anne's War

Queen Anne's War was a military conflict that took place in the Americas from 1701 to 1711. It was the virtually bloodless chapter of the War of the Spanish Succession.

Background
In the 1600s Britain colonized the East Coast as the Thirteen Colonies, France declared Canada, the American Midwest, and all land down to the Gulf of Mexico to be a part of Louisiana, and New Spain was Spain's claims to the whole of the American West, Central America, and most of South America. These three protectorates fought proxy wars whenever war broke out in Europe, like when King William's War broke out in 1688 as a companion to the War of the Grand Alliance in Europe.

In 1701, war broke out between the United Provinces and the Kingdom of France, so the Dutch and British allied against the French and Spanish.

War
The war in the Americas was virtually bloodless between the major powers. In 1702 the French bombarded Grand Bahama, a British trading port in The Bahamas, and they also blockaded Port Royal in 1706, but never met in an actual battle. The Dutch invasion of French Guiana was thrown off because the Arawakans overthrew the colonial governor after the United Provinces was occupied by France in 1701, and the French maintained their colonies. The war ended only when France ceded Newfoundland to the British in 1710.